US Food and Drug Administration Approvals of Drugs and Devices Based on Nonrandomized Clinical Trials
Author(s) -
Marianne Razavi,
Paul Glasziou,
Farina Klocksieben,
John P. A. Ioannidis,
Iain Chalmers,
Benjamin Djulbegović
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jama network open
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.278
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 2574-3805
DOI - 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.11111
Subject(s) - medicine , food and drug administration , clinical trial , randomized controlled trial , odds ratio , odds , drug , clinical research , off label use , medline , psychological intervention , pharmacology , logistic regression , political science , law , psychiatry
In this study, estimated magnitudes of effect were larger among studies for which the FDA did not require RCTs compared with studies for which it did. There was no clear threshold of treatment effect above which no RCTs were requested.
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